My mom called a half-dozen groups in those early hours of Thursday morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between a Rock and a Hard Place] Reference

More than a half-dozen drugmakers are now working on beta inhibitors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Disappearing Mind] Reference

But NEWSWEEK ran that logic by a half-dozen outside tax professionals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Television: Tax Trouble For Abc's 'Extreme' Winne] Reference

We roared through Rizzoli's, an antiques store, a half-dozen art galleries.    From Wordnik.com.  ['One Life Is Not Enough'] Reference

More than a half-dozen private studios have sprung up in the past nine months.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's New Culture Meccas] Reference

Pete Peterson, co-founder of the Blackstone Group, has written a half-dozen books.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remembering Bruce Wasserstein] Reference

We found a half-dozen brood hens with a bowl of water that had turned into solid ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Landlord, Expert On Human Behavior?] Reference

The displaced residents have been taken in by neighbors a half-dozen miles to the north.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War In Thin Air] Reference

All of our major allies except Japan (with a half-dozen executions a year) have abolished the practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death Penalty On Trial] Reference

The shortlist, according to senior aides, narrowed down rapidly, several weeks ago to a half-dozen names.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Change Obama Needed] Reference

Most schools prefer candidates in their late 20s or early 30s, with a half-dozen years of work experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giving Women the Business] Reference

The document is so secret that only about a half-dozen people in the U.S. government are allowed to see it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Al Qaeda's 'Pre-Election' Plot] Reference

Within an hour, there were a half-dozen federal prosecutors and an FBI agent sitting in Tripp's living room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton And The Intern] Reference

Rush had a half-dozen people to recognize, but made a point of expressing his admiration for the man he played.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Sound Profound] Reference

Among the half-dozen union members interviewed by Newsweek, all but one declared themselves Clinton supporters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton's Wager Pays Off] Reference

The boy pointed to a half-dozen black laborers at a nearby bus stop and observed, "They steal almost anything.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blacks In The Gray Flannel Suits] Reference

Kozak says that in the past year, a half-dozen kidnappings tied to narcotraffickers have taken place in El Paso.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloodshed On the Border] Reference

If the fluids flowing from a dying Ebola-virus victim infect a half-dozen nurses, the bug still comes out ahead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Viruses Of The Mind: How Odd Ideas Survive] Reference

So far only a half-dozen test subjects (all dogs) have received Lagow's bone substitute, but all have fared well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Replacement Parts] Reference

In his majority whip's office on the Hill, he kept marble tablets of the Ten Commandments and a half-dozen bullwhips.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE EXTERMINATOR] Reference

And the 50-50 Senate split led to promises that the half-dozen GOP moderates would gain new respect within the party.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odyssey Of 'Jeezum Jim'] Reference

In the dining room, police said, a half-dozen children lay asleep on a bed, their tiny bodies intertwined like kittens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Leave Children With Bad Parents?] Reference

True, some stem-cell researchers say that even a half-dozen cell lines would be enough to at least keep research going.    From Wordnik.com.  [Battle For Bush's Soul] Reference

Nabarro's job is to prepare a half-dozen U.N. agencies -- and 191 member states -- for a seamless international response.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bracing for a Plague] Reference

"We definitely would have been faced with another half-dozen layoffs had we not gotten these stimulus projects," Baker says.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Recession Is Over] Reference

Just because you're a road warrior doesn't mean your briefcase should be stuffed with a half-dozen transformers and chargers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Share The Power] Reference

His favorite example: the vote last spring to turn a half-dozen Muslim enclaves threatened by Bosnian Serbs into "safe areas.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blues For The Blue Helmets] Reference

The White House is also asking each cabinet secretary to lobby a half-dozen or so undecided members on both sides of the aisle.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Let's Get A Vote, Up Or Down'] Reference

Behind a cement wall across the street, where a half-dozen reporters and some locals observed the firing, tempers were flaring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter From Tetovo] Reference

Asked where they live, they name any old hotel rather than their safe house, which is littered with guns of a half-dozen types.    From Wordnik.com.  [AVOIDING THE CROSS HAIRS] Reference

Thompson has spent the past half-dozen years looking for a publisher, and making a few thousand dollars a year from her writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heartsick] Reference

They were led by Akebono, the Hawaiian-born grand champion who, at 516 pounds, was more than the equal of a half-dozen Tara Lipinskis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Festival Of Youth] Reference

The real status symbol at Enron was not a new Ferrari but one of the company's half-dozen parking spaces monitored by security cameras.    From Wordnik.com.  [ENRON'S DIRTY LAUNDRY] Reference

Whatever the case, it was one of a half-dozen such incidents in Quetta in the last few months, and it only intensified the edgy atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Picture Show] Reference